GLASSBORO, NJ.- Celebrating the acquisition of a new collection, the Rowan University Art Gallery presents “Groundbreaking: The Women of the Sylvia Sleigh Collection” and selections from the Sister Chapel installation – including Bella Abzug by Alice Neel – are on view through October 1, 2011. The collection, a group of nearly 100 works by more than 50 women artists, was amassed by Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010), a pioneering feminist and well-known painter of portraits and male nudes. Shortly before her death last year, Sleigh offered to donate her entire collection to the Rowan University Art Gallery. “Although many artists own works by their peers, Sylvia Sleigh was quite unusual in her extensive acquisition of art by other women,” notes Dr. Andrew Hottle, professor of Art History in Rowan’s Department of Art, who was instrumental in bringing the collection to the university. “Her own